# Things that are no longer humorous **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 24, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034 "2000-12-24T00:10:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/61 "2001-01-09T02:39:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\*p.s.- mindblowing- “Why did the chicken cross the road” was probably hilarious when it was first asked. Honestly. \*\* Ya know, I’ve actually thought about this many a time before, and that really always made me laugh, that people actually did find that funny before…makes you glad our humor is so “advanced”…whatever that means… ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/62 "2001-01-09T04:09:07Z")
An old roommate of mine still does that “Cut it out” thing, complete with the hand motions. Don’t pretend you don’t know what the hand motions are… scissors, pointing, and a kind of hitchhiking motion. Then again, he was homeschooled. Heh, I got a nice chuckle from the chicken crossed the road observation. Good job. Quix P.S. My TV gripe–absolutely any fucking commercial where some sort of morphing is done to make animals/babies/old men/etc smile really big/wink/laugh/talk/etc. Fuck! I also hate the bitch in the Southwest Airlines commercial going through that guy’s medicine cabinet. It’s like a personal gripe against her. I yell at the TV, “You fucking bitch, I hope your shitty Southwest flight crashes!” Then again, I need counseling. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/63 "2001-01-09T05:25:10Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by SCRIMMY_ > Oh God, next to the “2 great LazyBoy chairs, 1 great low price” commercial and the “we’ve got bargains” St Patty’s commercial AHHHHHHHHH!!! SCRIMMY, my mind can only handle that damned ABC Warehouse commercial for 7 days in March! AHHHHHHHHHH! So, you’re from Michigan? Dave Coulier graduated from my high school. When he came for a visit, we asked him about the “You Oughta Know” thing. He said that the timing of the end of his relationship with her and when she was writing for that album would seem to suggest a link, but he couldn’t prove it. He also said, “I have no idea about that theater business.” I just realized I hate seeing Howie Long in Radio Shack commercials. He’s taking precious screen time away from Teri Hatcher. As for things that just aren’t funny anymore, and keeping in the Alanis spirit of this post, people who say “Don’t ya think?” after I say something’s ironic. Even worse are people who say “Isn’t that ironic, don’t ya think?” after somthing that ISN’T IRONIC. For fuck’s sake, learn what irony is! It’s not the same as a coincidence!!! ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/64 "2001-01-09T07:50:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > \*\*_“Chi-town, Beantown, every in between town/Lookin’ for the funniest people!”_ > > Jackalope: “Fast as fast can be, you’ll never catch me!” > \*\* I only have one thing to say to you before I go boil my brain. You are evil. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/65 "2001-01-09T19:38:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Then again, any show that > starred Tawny Kitaen had some redeeming value…even if she wasn’t writhing on the hood of car > (can anyone place that reference?). Shoot, boy, give me something a little harder (yeah, that’s what _she_ said)! Whitesnake videos, of course. A rotten hair pop band with David what’s-his-name dating Tawny at the time. Ech. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/66 "2001-01-09T20:56:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BunnyGirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Then again, any show that starred Tawny Kitaen had some redeeming value…even if she wasn’t writhing on the hood of a car (can anyone place that reference?). > > Shoot, boy, give me something a little harder (yeah, that’s what _she_ said)! > > Whitesnake videos, of course. A rotten hair pop band with David what’s-his-name dating Tawny at the time. > > Ech. \*\* Well done, **Bunny**. Tawny was indeed married to David Coverdale, former Deep Purple vocalist and lead singer of the abominable hair-band Whitesnake! The video in question, of course, was “Here I Go Again.” I’m so ashamed at what falls out of the memory banks sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/67 "2001-01-09T22:39:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > Well done, **Bunny**. Tawny was indeed married to David Coverdale, former Deep Purple vocalist and lead singer of the abominable hair-band Whitesnake! The video in question, of course, was “Here I Go Again.” I’m so ashamed at what falls out of the memory banks sometimes. \*\* Was this the same video that created a ruckus because a nipple was visible? Or am I way off here? Quix ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/68 "2001-01-10T02:16:26Z")
[Phil Hartman as Ed Mcmahon] You are correct sir! [/Phil Hartman as Ed Mcmahon] It was when she leaned out the window and the wind took care of things. I became a man watching that video. Sad. These kids today don’t know how easy they have it with the internet. I have eye damage from watching scrambled playboy channel. ---
**Author:** ![choosybeggar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/69 "2001-01-10T07:57:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_farley \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by SCRIMMY \* > > \*\*peace \*\* > > Jokes about cops eating doughnuts (fer chrissakes, was it ever funny?)\*\* Funny cop/doughnut joke example: From Raising Arizona. Scene where Leonard Smalls (The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse) visits Nathan Arizona’s office to discuss his fee for finding N. Arizona’s boy: \*N.A. Intimates something about how the cops will find his son anyway L.S.: “A cop couldn’t find his butt if it had a bell on it. You want to find an outlaw, you call an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin Donuts, call a cop.”\* HaHaHaHaw. Now that’s comedy mis amigos. Or perhaps I’m biased? ---
**Author:** ![RoboDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@RoboDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoboDude)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/70 "2001-01-11T02:17:23Z")
On a related note, does anyone remember the Comedy Central show “Upright Citizens Brigade”? (I think it was cancelled) I only saw a few episodes, and in all of them, they would take something that was kinda funny for maybe a minute and go on and on and on with it. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/71 "2001-01-11T08:07:18Z")
Oh no, the Upright Citizens Brigade is the fuckingshit! I cannot communicate through words how good they are. They’re an improv group originally from Chicago, now in NYC. I attended an Improv Festival at Haverford (their motto, “If you say it fast enough at the grad school interview, they’ll assume you said ‘Harvard’”) and the UCB led workshops. I worked for over an hour with a guy named Matt (very funny on the show). These guys are the ultimate! If anybody ever gets the chance, see them in NY. They have their own theatre. I’m assumin some of you have seen “Who’s Line is It Anyway”? It’s monkeyshits compared to these guys. Alas, comedy central has cancelled them(like MST3K, comedy central must be fecophilia reified), that’s all I got, jb ---
**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/72 "2001-01-11T08:33:49Z")
did any of you see the evil pepsi girl in the commercial with KISS? that sounds like a bad joke opening… but seriously, I so lost any … any anything I ever thought about KISS. They are on stage in their makeup and stuff singing, and then the camera drops down and there she is in KISS makeup and clothes. It is sooooooooooo sickening. Has anyone else seen this? I’ve only seen it once, thankfully. Also those search engine commercials. Any search engine commercial. The newest ones have this woman pulling weeds in her garden and at the end of this particularly stubborn weed is a woman’s head that pops out of the dirt, sort of scat singing beedopadoppadopdopda Never funny, actually, just SKAREEEEEEEEEEEEEE… Also the 7-up guy, the ‘my internet connection is so slow’ commercials, and… well, actually, my brain is totally stewed in fearful juices at the fact that Alanis might have given Dave Coiuuoloeteir (whatever) more than just a disdainful glance. YEEEEEEEEECH!!! How could she??? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/73 "2001-01-11T12:10:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Nobody is amused by crack-smoking hopheads anymore. Learn to speak English correctly and get a life you know, overgeneralisations by someone who obviously dosent know what he is talking about just isn’t funny either… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/74 "2001-01-11T13:53:54Z")
‘TMI’ was just below subfunny for about a milisecond, it lost it though. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/75 "2001-01-11T14:10:39Z")
What do you mean, Cisco? The phrase TMI, or the actual sharing of TMI? Cuz if it’s the latter, you’re striking a serious blow against one of my few talents. 😉 –Tim ---
**Author:** ![horowitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@horowitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horowitz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/76 "2001-01-11T20:10:43Z")
Mr. Blackwell Ok I don’t know if this guy was ever funny. That worst dressed list makes me change the channel/turn the page faster than anything. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/77 "2001-01-12T18:39:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > \*\*What do you mean, Cisco? The phrase TMI, or the actual sharing of TMI? Cuz if it’s the latter, you’re striking a serious blow against one of my few talents. 😉 > > –Tim \*\* I mean the phrase TMI. Especially when it’s over stupid stuff. Example: Person: My stomach is really disagreeing with that beef and potato burrito I ate earlier. Dumbass: WHOA! TMI!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/78 "2001-01-12T19:35:44Z")
Zesty! God, how I hate that stupid commercial! I hate it because it is stupid, but even more I hate it because you can tell that Taco Bell is trying to launch a catch phrase, ala the Whazzzup guys. Catch phrases are annoying. Trying to concoct one by playing an asinine ad over and over is criminal. They retired that demon-spawned chihuahua and this was the best they could do next? Two meatheaded, slack jawed losers saying Zesty? I can already picture the t-shirt companies gearing up. “This Zesty thing is gonna be huge! Order more cotton!” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/79 "2001-01-13T05:04:22Z")
Dear Mr. Brooks: In the hopes of reviving your once flourishing career, I am offering the following advice. Although the following things were funny many decades ago, they are not any more: 1. Jewishness is no longer funny. Rabbis, Jewish ethnic food, Yiddish, domineering mothers- gone the way of vaudville. 2. Homosexuality is no longer funny. Or more to the point, swishiness, sissies, pansies, fruits, “camp”, male chorus lines, and ugly men in drag, are all no longer funny. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034/80 "2001-01-13T05:24:12Z")
**Lumpy** , you obviously have never seen Mistress Shlomo of the Night, host(ess)? of _Midnight Borscht_. Hilarious. jb [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-no-longer-humorous/47034.md?page=3)